Repeatability of Posterior Corneal Surface Measurements and Zernike Polynomials of Two Ocular Biometers With Single and Dual Scheimpflug Cameras in Keratoconus and Healthy Eyes.

Purpose: This study aims to evaluate the repeatability of posterior corneal surface and Zernike polynomial measurements of 2 different ocular biometers and Scheimpflug devices in keratoconus (KC) and healthy eyes.

Methods: This is a prospective, comparative study performed at the Department of Ophthalmology, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany. Included were KC and healthy eyes.

Carbon bursts inside a small aperture intraocular lens after Nd:YAG laser capsulotomy.

Purpose: The IC-8® Apthera™ (AcuFocus Inc.™, Irvine, California, USA) is the first small aperture intraocular lens (IOL) to receive FDA approval for presbyopia correction in the summer of 2022. It is a single-piece hydrophobic acrylic monofocal lens, which is placed in the capsular bag.

Axial length adjustment in eyes with silicone oil endotamponade reduces overestimation by a swept-source optical coherence tomography-based biometer.

Background: To assess changes in ocular biometry of the phakic eye after pars-plana-vitrectomy (PPV) and silicone oil (SO) endotamponade in eyes with a retinal detachment.

Methods: This retrospective, consecutive case series included 72 eyes of 72 patients who underwent PPV with 5000-centistokes SO endotamponade between July 2018 and June 2023. Pseudophakic eyes and eyes with a combined phacovitrectomy were excluded.

Fellow eye data for intraocular lens calculation in eyes undergoing combined phacovitrectomy.

Purpose: To evaluate whether the intraocular lens (IOL) calculation of the fellow eye (FE) can be used in eyes undergoing combined phacovitrectomy.

Methods: In this retrospective, consecutive case series, we enrolled patients who underwent combined phacovitrectomy with silicone oil removal and IOL implantation at the Goethe-University. Preoperative examinations included biometry (IOLMaster 700; Carl Zeiss).

Accuracy of using the axial length of the fellow eye for IOL calculation in retinal detachment eyes undergoing silicone oil removal.

Purpose: Evaluate whether the axial length of the fellow eye can be used to calculate the intraocular lens (IOL) in eyes with retinal detachment.

Design: Retrospective, consecutive case series.

Methods: Our study was conducted at the Goethe University and included patients who underwent silicone oil (SO) removal combined with phacoemulsification and IOL implantation.

Prognosis of light chain amyloidosis: a multivariable analysis for survival prediction in patients with cardiac involvement proven by endomyocardial biopsy.

Background: Cardiac involvement is a main determinant of mortality in light chain (AL) amyloidosis but data on survival of patients with cardiac AL amyloidosis proven by endomyocardial biopsy (EMB) are sparse.

Methods: This study analysed clinical, laboratory, electrocardiography and echocardiographic parameters for their prognostic value in the assessment of patients with AL amyloidosis and cardiac involvement. Patients with AL amyloidosis who had their first visit to the amyloidosis centre at the University Hospital Heidelberg between 2006 and 2017 (n=1628) were filtered for cardiac involvement proven by EMB.